Abhorrent Quote by Ray McGovern

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and…

— Valerie Plame

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service.…

— Barry Eisler

Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in…

— Laura Poitras

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and…

— Edward Kennedy

I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work,…

— Robert Baer

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

— Laurie Anderson

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

— Edward Abbey

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an…

— Barack Obama

Once you take yourself off the pedestal, saying, "It's bad for you to torture, but for us, this is our national security, so we're…

— Wesley Clark

My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

— Jack Keane

“The CIA program known as “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes of incarceration…

— Daniel Silva